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Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.
In Black Legion ( 1937 ), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene called " intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest ".
* 1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor
Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.
In November 2010, one of Yeats works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £ 350, 000 at a Christie's auction in London.
* Graham Greene, Kim Philby's close friend, wrote the screenplay for The Third Man using Philby as a model for Harry Lime, one of the characters.
Introduction by Graham Greene.
Although he gained little popular success in his lifetime, his work was highly respected by his peers, and his friends included Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene.
On the advice of Graham Greene, who told him that paperback books were a passing fad that wouldn't last, Peake opted for the £ 10.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard became its first president and his son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, eventually succeeded him in 1897 following his death.
* The Quiet American ( 1955 ) by Graham Greene
* The Comedians ( 1966 ) by Graham Greene
Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.
Some post-attack period novels are about intelligence officers and the profession of intelligence, and some are by insiders ( as were W. Somerset Maughum and Graham Greene for their generations ).
* Graham Greene
To honor the NFL's 75th season, several former players who were named to the league's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team joined the coin toss ceremony: Otto Graham, Joe Greene, Ray Nitschke, and Gale Sayers.
** Graham Greene, English writer ( b. 1904 )
* Graham Greene relates in his first autobiography A Sort Of Life ( 1971 ) that he played Russian Roulette, alone, a few times as a teenager.
In short story, The Basement Room ( 1935 ), by Graham Greene, the ( sympathetic ) servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, " You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to ".
His last film, an adaptation of the Graham Greene espionage novel The Human Factor ( 1979 ), had financial problems and was barely released.
Graham Greene praised the " heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies " of her faster-than-thought delivery.
The atmosphere of four-power Vienna is captured in the Graham Greene screenplay for the film The Third Man ( 1949 ), directed by Carol Reed.
Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.
Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw ( who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J.

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In 2005 Graham Sharpe, who had known Sutch since the late 1960s, wrote the first biography, The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch.
Given to Graham with the working title " Ballet for Martha ," it was named by her for the scenario she had in mind, though Copland often said he was thinking of neither Appalachia nor Spring while he wrote it.
Peel's support for free trade could already be seen in his 1842 and 1845 budgets ; in late 1842 Graham wrote to Peel that " the next change in the Corn Laws must be to an open trade " while arguing that the government should not tackle the issue.
While Graham wrote all the songs, except one co-written by Prince, the album was co-arranged and co-produced by Prince, and most of the instruments and vocals were recorded by both Graham and Prince.
After many years, and several attempts by other men to write acceptable rules, John Graham Chambers wrote the Marquess of Queensberry rules in 1865.
Here he wrote his first ― but never published ― novel The Poor Man and the Lady in 1867, and the poem " A Young Man's Exhortation ," from which Graham Greene took an epigraph for his own novel, The Comedians.
In 2004, Graham Allison, U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Clinton administration, wrote that “ on the current path, a nuclear terrorist attack on America in the decade ahead is more likely than not ".
Anthony Burgess wrote that Graham Greene's ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.
In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus ; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying " I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled.
The Boston Globes Renée Graham wrote of the artists ' ambivalence towards the term in a 2003 article on neo soul's standing, " Despite its critical success, if neo-soul had an initial failing, it was the media-created label itself-a term that the artists, whom it was meant to represent, generally rejected ".
The FBI, United Airlines and the district attorney wanted Graham tried, found guilty, and executed promptly as a deterrent to others who might plan copycat murders ," Amole wrote in a column published in the Rocky Mountain News on Sunday, October 29, 1995.
Winston Graham wrote the first four Poldark books during the 1940s and 1950s.
Croft wrote the scripts and lyrics for a series released on His Master's Voice Junior Record Club, narrated by Vivien Leigh and starring several singer-actors and actresses including Barbara Brown, Graham Stark and Cicely Courtneidge.
Journalist David Graham Phillips wrote a series of articles decrying corruption and subservience to corporate interests within the body entitled Treason of the Senate.
Graham was an accomplished author of suspense novels and during the course of his life wrote nearly thirty novels ( in addition to the twelve Poldark books ).
Graham also wrote a history of The Spanish Armadas and an historical novel, The Grove of Eagles, set in that period.
She wrote to Governor Bob Graham in 1985 to encourage him to assess the conditions the migrant workers endured.
In July 2006, Graham Coxon wrote and had published a foreword for a new edition of Herman Hesse's novel, Narcissus and Goldmund.
Originating with a band, named British Lion, which he managed and wrote with in the early 1990s, Harris kept in touch with its vocalist, Richard Taylor, and guitarist, Graham Leslie, and the album, consisting of 1970s influenced hard rock songs, was written and recorded over a number of years around Iron Maiden's tour schedule.
Graham Waterhouse wrote Four Epigraphs after Escher op.
In 1957 Time magazine wrote a brief about Mickey Cohen meeting with Billy Graham.
William wrote a letter to James, Duke of York ( later James VII ), who was both his uncle and father-in-law, recommending John Graham as a soldier.

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